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Oof, that sounds rough... Gaming is good for the wallet, if you want it to be, though. Buy a book, buy some dice, play for years.

Damn. Depressing, haha. I'm using Inherent Bonuses, so I'm not overly concerned about them getting their next Plus on time. The thing is, that means that I can either get them their next Plus (not that exciting... usually just slightly better on a crit for weapons, or a marginally better...

While prepping for my game tomorrow, something kind of important struck me: I'm tired of dealing with the magic items every level. The treasure portion. The enemies and skill challenges and plot and everything else is fun and creative for me. But the wealth is just killing me. I keep coming up...

Sounds reasonable! Looking forward to seeing how this goes.

It sounds alright to me :) It's not the style that I'd run, but I could see my brother doing it, and he's a great GM. I'd definitely go along with it as a player without any objections. I want to point out, though, that level 1 is probably barely "hero" status in 5e. So I'd do something that...

I think he just means it'd need to make sense. Like, if you have a breath weapon attack, and you're a Paladin, you could reflavor it as a smite. But I don't think it'd take a smite.

Thanks :) It sounded like a fun idea, and it turned out pretty fun. I vaguely remember reading about someone doing something similar with a D&D game at one point, but I don't remember the details. I don't think it had the pieces attacking players while a fight raged on, but I don't exactly...

Thanks, I'm glad they're enjoyable :) We definitely are having fun with it!

Here we go again! Another 4 hour session, and another play report: So, we ended our last session with initiative rolling against the wraith dragon in the room with the giant spiritual chess board. I described two giant vague humanoid shapes appearing, who proceeded to move the pieces. The white...

I've been lightly following the thread, but I'll admit to being a skimmer, not a deep reader so far. It sounded like we need ideas for how to keep the group engaged during the storm? I'm not 100% (and I'm on my phone now while waiting on someone to finally come out to my car...), though...

This thread is a train wreck.

Okay, I am not well-versed in this system, but since the OP has mentioned that his Warlock is level 4, here's a social Warlock I threw together. So, he's pretty social. He can take the form of any humanoid from 4'6" to 6'6" at will. He rolls Deception and Persuasion at 1d20+6 (with advantage)...

I think so, too. From the beginning, I said that I've been trying to play to 4e's strengths, and action-packed is the way to go. We still have RP (as seen in my posts), and we still have planning (plan to usurp the high priestess of Lolth, steal the Second Truth, and get out) / resource...

I definitely run my other campaign (which uses my own RPG) much differently. It's slower, more nuanced, more politically-driven, more in-depth. We might have one combat every two sessions. (Though the game supports completely non-combat characters much better than any D&D system.) For 4e, I try...

Alright, another session! It lasted just shy of four hours, and the Scout player was about an hour late. Since the players just hit level 10 at the end of last session, I told them I was going to transition them into their Paragon Path choices (which I'd asked them all to pick out between...

Haha, okay, Umbran. Go ahead. Suck eggs ;)

I've done a "this will show them!" And they thought it was clever. We're all really good friends in my main group (going back 15 years). There's no hard feelings even when I've done stuff like that. (Because I've also warned them about things that led up to that.) Again, a little more "tastes...

I actually think my players would like that twist. Guess tastes vary. Might want to include that in your post next time, Umbran.

I've watched the whole episode in the past. It was not good (to me, obviously). Mind you, a lot more "watchable" than other RPG videos I've seen, but still. I think even with the tricks it used (music, actors, editing, etc.) it was not a lot of fun. (I just watched it because it was better than...

I've noticed something similar (my party just hit level 10), but damage is actually pretty decent with my group right now. The Scout does 26 damage with his at-will melee attacks (if he hits), so that's before encounter powers. The Elementalist averages 27.5 damage with her at=will (again, no...